The concepts of heaven and hell have in some fashion been with our species from before there was perhaps even anything like human language as we now know it. These are not things to be understood the way which we understand solid reality in the here and now, rather they are metaphors. They are metaphors about alternative futures for ourselves.
Heaven is a potential wherein humanity is equipped to willfully choose to advance ourselves beyond our own mere mortality by bequeathing a gift of a method whereby to continue to uncover the hidden unknowns of the developing substance of truth. This truth has many many aspects to it, only some of which we are in the process of imagining. By doing this we perpetuate that evolving potential to succeed in that which gives us real and substantial happiness. True happiness that is thus expressible as the metaphor of heaven.
Hell is the destruction of this same potential by wanton dismissal of its very possibility. On the world stage today that would be the end of the continuation self reflective evolving life on this planet, i.e. humankind. The turning away from the vast unknown mission barely and still only grasped by the mind yet darkly would be the inescapable end for our species.
Only when we truly realize and are able admit this and to agree that all else, all other is absolutely of no real value in the face of these considerations, will we be able to put behind us the collective historical mistake in not comprehending the reality of the metaphorical nature of what has long held us in thrall to mere illusions rather than the higher truth as necessarily understood in these terms. The question of faith in these metaphors is knowing that if the universe were composed in any other way these choices would not even be available to us.
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